Moskva,
lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers
in the Russian Navy and flagship of the Black Sea fleet, will be sent
to the Ship Repair Center "Asterisk" (located in Severodvinsk)
at the end of 2015 for modernization according to "Interfax "
citing the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The cruiser has already received some upgrades: According
to Interfax the main weaponry has been replaced. The existing P-500
"Basalt" supersonic
anti-ship missiles with a range of up to 500 kilometers have
been replaced with P-1000 "Vulkan", with maximum range of
700 kilometers.

The Moskva (originally name "Slava") was
laid down in 1976 in Shipyard 445 of the 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant
in Nikolayev, was launched in 1979, and commissioned on 30 January 1983.
Slava returned to Nikolayev in December 1990 for a refit but was not returned
to service until April 2000. Recommissioned as Moskva, she replaced the
Kynda class cruiser Admiral Golovko as the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

Modernization and repair will extend the life of the ship until the end
of the 2020s. Another vessel of the same class, the Marshal Ustinov has
just been refitted.

Currently, the Moskva is preparing for another campaign in the Mediterranean
Sea.